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The Vaccination Dilemma From Smallpox to Swine Flu ~ the Vaccination Dilemma Submitted to: Mr. Kevin Guest Chief Marketing Officer USANA Health Sciences Submitted by: Lyle MacWilliam, MSc, FP MacWilliam Communications Inc. 7594 Klinger Road Vernon, British Columbia CANADA V1H 1H4 October 27th, 2009 FROM SMALLPOX TO SWINE FLU ~ THE VACCINATION DILEMMA Introduction It is a common myth that vaccinations vanquished the deadly epidemics of the Old World. A review of medical history reveals that the infectious scourges that swept Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries—the plague, black death, and cholera—had largely succumbed to sweeping sanitation reforms introduced throughout Europe during the mid- 1800s, before vaccinations for these diseases were widely administered. The introduction of plumbing, removal of street and animal waste, upgrading of water delivery systems, and the introduction of food and personal hygiene did more to slay the dragons of infectious disease than ever did the supposed “magic” of modern medicine. Historical records show that vaccination against pertussis (whooping cough), measles and polio occurred only at the termination of the lifecycle of each epidemic. Pertussis in the United States had fallen from 12.2 deaths per 100 thousand in 1900 to 2.2 deaths per 100 thousand by 1940.1 The combination pertussis vaccine, largely credited for this victory, was only introduced in the late 1940s. The only exception was smallpox, which, after declining precipitously in England and Wales, spiked sharply after a mandatory vaccination program was introduced in the late 1860s, abating again only after local uprisings forced authorities to abandon mandatory inoculation. Typhoid Fever, another feared and deadly epidemic, died of natural causes without any vaccination program.2 There is no argument that vaccinations do stimulate antibody production. This does not, however, mean that they enhance immunity to disease. There is a growing chorus of experts who posit that, far from protecting us, vaccines may have the contrarian effect of depleting our immunological reserves and lowering our resistance to all infectious agents. They argue that, for those most in need, flu shots and other vaccinations and anti-viral drugs may provide little or no protection at all. The conundrum remains: Is vaccination necessary for those in whom it is effective, and is it effective in those for whom it seems necessary? These are questions that medical science has yet to address. 2 The Controversy: To V or not to V Most people assume that today’s vaccines have been thoroughly tested for safety and efficacy before being administered to the public. They have not. Not a single study exists that can show vaccinations are safe over the long term, nor are there any comprehensive studies done on the cumulative effects of multiple dosing with anti-viral and anti-bacterial vaccines.2 Dr. Tom Jefferson is an epidemiologist with the Cochrane Collaboration, an independent international organization dedicated to disseminating information about healthcare research worldwide. According to Jefferson, the vast majority of flu vaccination studies are so deeply flawed they amount to little more than rubbish.3 Jefferson contends that only four studies have been properly designed to pin down the effectiveness of flu vaccines and two of those showed they might be effective in certain groups, while the other two studies showed equivocal results or no benefit. He believes that researchers have been fooled into thinking vaccinations are more effective than the data suggest by the imprecision of the statistics. While the question of efficacy of the various vaccines comprising the vaccination schedules of American and Canadian children remains an issue of debate, the evidence of harm is accumulating—and it is disturbing. There are a multitude of examples of children acquiring the very illness they were vaccinated against and there is overwhelming evidence 2 that certain vaccines can be extremely harmful, causing permanent disability and even death. The National Vaccine Information Center reports of individuals, young and old, who are suffering from a spectrum of chronic illness and disability, including learning disabilities and developmental delays, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, seizure disorders, mental retardation, diabetes, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and other kinds of neuroimmune and autoimmune dysfunction.4 Vaccines contain numerous agents, including viruses and bacteria, detergents and toxic preservatives, such as formaldehyde and mercury; we simply do not know the effects of cumulative exposures to these agents. Safety studies, when they’re done, are limited to short time periods only (days or weeks) and on limited sample sizes. Because such studies fail utterly to address the issue of long term safety, evidence of relatively rare but serious adverse reactions is difficult to tease out.1 It is this paucity of evidence that gives credence to the growing fear that many serious delayed-onset adverse reactions to vaccines are, indeed, taking place. 3 Vaccination Prevents Natural Immunity When a child is first infected with a contagion, his or her immune system mounts a glorious defense against the pathogen, summoning an intricate web of interactions borne from millennia of evolutionary adaptation. These biological responses are imprinted indelibly in the child’s programmable immune response mechanism in such a way that she or he will develop a life-long immunity to most diseases. Vaccines, on the other hand, injecting both dead bacteria and active or attenuated (inactivated) viral particles directly into the blood stream, by-pass the body’s natural defense mechanisms and deprive the body of the chance to develop a naturally acquired immunity to common childhood diseases. In essence, mass vaccination programs have removed the natural infection response from the course of human development.5 Prior to 1989, U.S. preschoolers received 11 vaccinations for polio, diphtheria, pertussis, measles, mumps and rubella. A decade later, they were receiving 22 inoculations by the time they reached first grade. Today’s children receive as many as 30 to 50 vaccinations during their formative years, a time when the developing immune system is most vulnerable. The fact is, an unvaccinated child would never contract all the diseases for which vaccinations are routinely given, but a vaccinated child is forced to mount a coordinated response to multiple pathogens, often all on the same day—an event highly improbable in real life. The following is a brief discussion of some of the most common vaccinations that parents must consider when it comes to vaccinating their children and themselves. Because of the large number of vaccinations available, it is by no means complete. Hepatitis B Hepatitis B is a sexually related viral disease transmitted through blood and bodily fluids. It is one of the principal causes of acute and chronic liver disease worldwide—it is also an illness for which children are at very low risk. In the United States, the addition in 1991 of hepatitis B to the vaccination schedule mandated that the first of three doses of the vaccine be given on the very day of birth. Merck Pharmaceuticals, makers of the genetically engineered vaccine, Recombivax HB, was granted FDA approval despite the fact that it had no safety data on its use in infants or on the simultaneous administration of the vaccine with other vaccines routinely administered at the same time.2 Since the introduction of the Hep B vaccine, which contains the mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, hundreds of reports have surfaced citing central nervous system diseases, multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, arthritis, severe rashes, fever, chronic 4 fatigue and Sudden Infant Death syndrome (SIDs). Merck, itself, admits to systemic complaints in up to 17% of all Hep B injections. Moreover, research from New Zealand cites a 60% increase in the incidence of juvenile diabetes after a massive vaccination program for hepatitis B, conducted between 1988 and 1991.6 Author of the study, Dr. Bart Classen, believes that vaccines given to children at less than two months can induce a damaging autoimmune response in the cells of the pancreas, which can lead to the onset of diabetes. A review of the literature reveals a litany of adverse reactions to the vaccine,7-16 with up to 50% of recipients experiencing some sort of adverse event. While the majority of reactions are minor, there is strong evidence that this vaccine can deliver a life-threatening punch to susceptible individuals,17-19 including autoimmune dysfunction, anaphylaxis, urticaria pigmentosa (severe skin rash), Lupus, vascular collapse, and neurological, ocular and kidney disease.20 A 1999 ABC News investigative report on the Hep B vaccine cited healthcare workers who experienced severe arthritis, muscle and nerve damage, and vision and memory loss, after receiving the vaccination. Over 50% of physicians in the UK have themselves refused to take the Hep B vaccination, citing the known dangers.2 An analysis of the probability of death from adverse reaction to the hepatitis B vaccine versus the probability of infection is stark—it is estimated that for every unvaccinated child that contracts hepatitis B, the vaccine itself kills nine and injures 200.2 Yet, the U.S. Immunization Schedule for 2009 dictates that every child shall have three hepatitis B vaccinations before the age of 18 months. Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis The DTaP vaccine confers immunity to diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. The vaccine now used in the United States is composed of diphtheria and tetanus toxoids combined with acellular pertussis, which is proving to have far fewer adverse effects than the original DTP version containing whole cells of the pertussis bacterium.21, 22 The DTaP vaccine is reported to be over 90% effective in protecting against all three diseases, based primarily on evidence of serum antibody formation.23, 24 Because of the seriousness of these diseases, the DTaP vaccine is one where the benefit- to-risk ratio appears to warrant its use.
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